[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>
> >> It's worse than this.  Consider the read-only clients.  When you
> >> access a filesystem object (file, directory, etc.), UFS will write
> >> metadata to update atime.  I believe that there is a noatime option to
> >> mount, but I am unsure as to whether this is sufficient.
> >
> >Is this some particular build or version that does this?  I can't find a
> >version of UFS that updates atimes (or anything else) when mounted
> >read-only.
>
> No that is clearly not the case; read-only mounts never write.

AFAIK, a read-only UFS mount will unroll the log and thus write to the medium.

Jörg

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